Comments on: Exoskeletal Awesomeness http://futurismic.com/2008/06/13/exoskeletal-awesomeness/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Leadhyena http://futurismic.com/2008/06/13/exoskeletal-awesomeness/comment-page-1/#comment-15081 Leadhyena Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:18:38 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3461#comment-15081 "My bet is it’ll be about 10 years before these are available to consumers: and will probably be expensive, heavily regulated and licensed when they are." ...regulated, and still hacked. You couldn't possibly stop people from souping these power-suits up, especially when you consider that guns are heavily regulated and still people have sawed-off shotguns, fully automatic weapons, and other illegally enhanced weapons. The scary thing is that when someone amps up their exoskeleton in software, the effect is not only imperceptible on first glance, but also can be hidden on close inspection if the code is good enough. “My bet is it’ll be about 10 years before these are available to consumers: and will probably be expensive, heavily regulated and licensed when they are.”

…regulated, and still hacked. You couldn’t possibly stop people from souping these power-suits up, especially when you consider that guns are heavily regulated and still people have sawed-off shotguns, fully automatic weapons, and other illegally enhanced weapons. The scary thing is that when someone amps up their exoskeleton in software, the effect is not only imperceptible on first glance, but also can be hidden on close inspection if the code is good enough.

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